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    A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
    A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
    A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
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    A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"

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    A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535836210
    A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"

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      A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" - Gale

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      The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

      F. Scott Fitzgerald

      1922

      Introduction

      F. Scott Fitzgerald's story The Diamond as Big as the Ritz first appeared in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set, a popular magazine of the 1920s. Fitzgerald had attempted to sell it to the Saturday Evening Post, which had published many of his other stories, but its harsh anticapitalistic message was rejected by the conservative magazine. In September 1922, the story appeared in his second collection, Tales of the Jazz Age.

      The story was inspired by Fitzgerald's 1915 visit to the Montana home of a Princeton classmate, Charles Donahoe, and was one of Fitzgerald's few forays into the realm of fantasy. It tells of young John Unger, who is invited to visit a classmate at his impossibly lavish home in Montana. Gradually, Unger learns the sinister origins of his host's wealth and the frightening lengths to which he will go to preserve it.

      In this story, Fitzgerald begins to explore many of the themes he used later when writing his best-known work, The Great Gatsby. The carelessness and immorality of the vastly wealthy and the American fascination with wealth are personified by Braddock Washington and his narcississtic family, who seem to believe that all others have been put on Earth for their amusement. The cataclysmic ending, in which the family and their home are destroyed, shows the result of their single-minded pursuit.

      Author Biography

      Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, to Edward and Mary (Mollie) Fitzgerald. In 1898, the family moved to upstate New York, where Edward worked as a salesman for Procter and Gamble. By the time the family returned to St. Paul, Fitzgerald was twelve years old, and his parents enrolled him at St. Paul Academy. Though Fitzgerald's family was by no means poor, they were not nearly as wealthy as most of the families that sent their sons to the academy, and it was here that Fitzgerald's lifelong fascination with the lives of the extremely wealthy began. At St. Paul Academy, he wrote stories for the school magazine and performed in

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